Temple people: Bioarchaeology, resilience and culture in prehistoric Malta

By Simon Stoddart, Ronika K. Power, Jess E. Thompson, Bernardette Mercieca-Spiteri, Rowan McLaughlin, Eóin W. Parkinson, Anthony Pace & Caroline Malone

• Complete volume - Temple people: Bioarchaeology, resilience and culture in prehistoric Malta
• Chapter 1 - Introduction: people of early Malta and the Circle
• Chapter 2 - New approaches to the bioarchaeology of complex multiple interments
• Chapter 3 - The chronology, structure and stratigraphy of the Circle
• Chapter 4 - Dental pathology in the Circle: oral health, activity and intervention in Neolithic Malta
• Chapter 5 - Dental modification in the Circle: shaping bodies, shaping culture in Neolithic Malta
• Chapter 6 - Dental anthropology from the Circle: non-metric traits of the posterior dentition and population relationships in the Neolithic Mediterranean
• Chapter 7 - Physical activity and body size in Temple Period Malta: biomechanical analysis of commingled and fragmentary long bones
• Chapter 8 - General pathology in the Circle: biocultural insights into population health, trauma and care in Neolithic Malta
• Chapter 9 - An isotopic study of provenance and residential mobility at the Circle and the Xemxija tombs
• Chapter 10 - An isotopic study of palaeodiet at the Circle and the Xemxija tombs
• Chapter 11 - aDNA: an investigation of uniparental genetic heritage in Neolithic Malta
• Chapter 12 - Reconstructing deathways at the Circle and the Xemxija tombs through funerary taphonomy
• Chapter 13 - The development of Late Neolithic burial places in Malta and Gozo: an overview
• Chapter 14 - Conclusion: current inferences from the study of death in prehistoric Malta
• References
• Appendices
• Glossary & Index